How to save sent Outlook messages after you have added a new email account.
If you have recently added a new account to Microsoft Outlook and discover that your Sent email messages have disappeared and not showing up in any other folder then you are not alone with this problem. The solution is very simple.
You make a new Rule. Click on the images below to enlarge them.
Here's How
1. Open Outlook and select your new account in the left pane. Click on "Rule" on the Ribbon then "Manage Rules & Alerts"
You make a new Rule. Click on the images below to enlarge them.
Here's How
1. Open Outlook and select your new account in the left pane. Click on "Rule" on the Ribbon then "Manage Rules & Alerts"
2. "New Rule".
3. "Start from a blank rule"
4. "Apply rule on messages I send". Next.
3. "Start from a blank rule"
4. "Apply rule on messages I send". Next.
5. Tick "Through the specified account" and "on this computer only". Click on the link "specified" in Step 2 and choose the account to check for.
6. "Finish" and "Apply". Test it out! The message will be nicely listed in the Sent Folder!
The same procedure can also used to make incoming messages arrive in your new account instead of the general Inbox.
The same procedure can also used to make incoming messages arrive in your new account instead of the general Inbox.